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Deliverable D.2.1 Guideline 1st Call
Acronym: CSP
Title: Joint programming actions to foster innovative CSP solutions
Grant Agreement number: 838311
Funding scheme: ERA-NET COFUND
Start date: 01st June 2019
Duration: 60 months
WP 2: Preparation and launch of the co-funded call
Task 2.3: Call Documentation and Guidance
Task Leader: Jülich FZJ
Lead beneficiary: AGENEX
Type: Report
Dissemination level: Confidential, only for members of the
consortium
Author(s): Due date: Month 1 (30 July 2019)
Actual submission date: 06 September 2019
File Format: CSP_ERANET_D2.1_1st_call_Guideline_V0.3_FZJ
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Contents
1. Introduction 3
2. Participating States, Organisations and Programmes 4
3. Scope and Topics 7
4. Application Issues
4.1 Timeline and Process
4.2 Eligibility Issues
4.3 Funding Rules
4.4 Confidentiality
4.5 Consortium Agreement
4.6 Evaluation
15
5. Funding and Reporting
5.1 Contract
5.2 Start and Instalments
5.3 Monitoring
5.4 Dissemination
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Annex - National Requirements 20
The CSP-ERANET Joint Call Action is supported by funding from the European Union‘s
HORIZON 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.
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1. Introduction
The CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call is carried out by national / regional research and technology
development (RTD) and innovation programmes and national / regional funding agencies in the field
of concentrating solar power (CSP) / solar thermal electricity (STE). The CSP ERANET 1st Cofund
Joint Call is carried out by the following countries and regions: Germany and North-Rhine-
Westphalia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Extremadura, Switzerland and Turkey.
Important dates:
Official opening of the Call: 07.10.2019 12:00 CET
Webinar: October 2019
Deadline for submitting preproposals: 10.01.2020 17:00 CET
Deadline for submitting fullproposals: 13.05.2020 17:00 CET
Feedback on funding decisions by 11.08.2020 and project starts from October 2020 on
Figure 1: Workflow for participation.
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2. Participating States, Organisations and Programmes
The participating national CSP-ERANET partners / contact points are listed in Table 1. Each
applicant is strongly encouraged to check the project idea with the national contact point as
early as possible in the preproposal phase, at the latest before submitting any applications.
Figure 2: Organisations involved in promoting the CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call and providing support and funding to innovative transnational projects.
Table 1: National / regional Funding Organisation Contact Points in
CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
Country /
Region
Organisation
(Funding
Organisation or
Contact Point)
Contact(s) and
Domain(s)
Germany Projektträger Jülich
(PtJ)
Geschäftsbereich Energiesystem: Erneuerbare
Energien/Kraftwerkstechnik, Fachbereich / Kraftwerkstechnik und
CCS, Solarthermische Kraftwerke (ESE 5)
Tarik Schwarzer: [email protected], +49 2461 61 9157
Electronic submission system:
Renate Horbelt: [email protected], +49 2461 61 9874
Kambulakwao Chakanga: [email protected],
+49 2461 61 9871
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Germany-
NRW
Projektträger ETN
Fachbereich Energie
Dr. Melanie Schulte: [email protected], +49 2461 690 504
Dr. Joachim Kutscher: [email protected],
+49 2461 690 604
Greece
GSRT
Dr. Konstantinos Kyritsis
[email protected], +30 213 1300131
Dr. Anna Rosenberg
[email protected], +30 213 13 00 095
Paraskevi Afentaki
[email protected], +30 213 13 00 112
Israel
MoE
Gideon Friedmann
[email protected], 972-2-5316020
Yael Harman
Italy
MiUR
Ing. Aldo Covello tel. +39 06 9772 6465
e-mail: [email protected]
Portugal
DGEG
Direção Geral de Energia e Geologia
Isabel Cabrita
[email protected], +351 217922753
Spain
Agencia Estatal de
Investigación (AEI)
PhD. Alberto Abánades
Daniel Ruiz Iruela (Administrative and technical issues)
[email protected], +34 916037968
Spain-CDTI
Centre for the
Development of
Industrial Technology
(CDTI)
Héctor Gonzalez Menendez
ERANETS CDTI
Spain- Extremadura
Junta de Extremadura-
Director General: Samuel Ruiz Fernández
[email protected] +0034 924 00 54 48
[email protected] +0034 924 00 54 48
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Dirección General de
Industria, Energía y
Minas
Spain-
Extremadura
Agencia Extremeña de
la Energía
AGENEX
AGENEX
Rachel Tully: [email protected], +34 924 262 161
Alfredo Pérez: [email protected], +34 924 262 161
Fernando Rivas [email protected] +34 924 262 161
Switzerland Swiss Federal Office of
Energy (SFOE)
Stefan Oberholzer:
[email protected], +41 58 465 89 20
Turkey Türkiye Bilimsel ve
Teknolojik Araştırma
Kurumu (Tübitak)
Ilknur YILMAZ+90 312 298 1753
Cagri YILDIRIM +90 312 298 1884
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3. Scope and Topics of the CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call topics are based on priorities identified in the Strategic Energy
Technology (SET) Plan resp. in the subsequent Implementation Plans for CSP (available on the
website CSP-ERANET). They include strategic targets that shall serve as reference for this call and
proposals to be submitted. Strategic targets of the Implementation Plans for CSP are as follows:
1. Short-term: > 40% cost reduction by 2020 (from 2013) translating into
• Supply price < 10 c€/kWh for a radiation of 2050 kWh/m2/year (conditions in Southern
Europe)
2. Longer-term: develop the next generation of CSP/STE technology
• New cycles (including supercritical ones) with a first demonstrator by 2020, with the aim to
achieve additional cost reductions and opening new business opportunities.
The above-mentioned 2020 targets are to be adapted accordingly to the transnational projects’ end
year (i.e. 2022).
The Project will be based on the research and priorities identified in the SET Plan1 and the CSP Implementation Plan2, prioritizing 8 topics originates from the STAGE-STE Deliverable 2.3 “Final R+D input to Implementation Plan technological research programme to CSP/STE defined targets achievement”.
The 8 topics are: 1. Advanced linear Fresnel technology
2. Parabolic trough with molten salt
3. Parabolic trough with silicone oil
4. Open volumetric air receiver
5. Improved central receiver molten salt technology
6. Next generation of central receiver power plants
7. Multi-tower beam down system
8. Advanced TES (Thermal Energy Storage)
1 https://setis.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/setis%20reports/2017_set_plan_progress_report_0.pdf 2 https://setis.ec.europa.eu/solar-thermal-electricity-concentrated-solar-power-implementation
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Figure 3: The topics of the CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
Topic 1: Advanced linear concentrator Fresnel technology with direct molten salt circulation
Scope: Proposals should aim at the development of linear Fresnel technology with molten salts as
working fluid and heat storage medium to take this technology to the next logical step, that of
increased concentration to enable operation at higher temperatures and thus, higher thermodynamic
conversion efficiency, together with a much-reduced storage size for the same amount of energy
stored.
Areas / subtopics:
1.1. Testing and evaluating critical plant components (reliability of standard components)
1.2. Develop plant engineering, for full operation control in clear skies and variable solar radiation
days, start-up and shutdown operation, night time freezing protection, including drain-down
gravity assisted strategies.
1.3. Selection of best molten salt suitable regarding technical, economical and risk assessment,
as well as corrosion related impacts.
1.4. Demonstration of evacuated tubular receivers with selective coatings to be heat resistant (no
out-gassing) and inner pipes to be corrosion resistant.
1.5. Optimization of the (modular) thermal storage, its integration and operational requirements
in the system, in order to improve scalability and reduce freezing risks.
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1.6. Demonstration of molten salt specific operations (availability of emergency operations).
1.7. Technical-economical optimization of the existing solar field.
1.8. Development of a library for industrial needs and creation of a complete model in order to
define process control.
1.9. Integration of forecasting and power grid management and trading as a key input for reliable
operation
TRL: 6 to 8.
Topic 2: Parabolic trough with molten salts
Scope: Proposals should aim at attaining an increase of reliability in the whole system by reducing
risks originating from molten salt specific operation conditions in main but also sub-ordinate
components. The action should address all risk-relevant components and include a well-organized
project management.
Areas / subtopics:
2.1. Testing and evaluating critical plant components (reliability of standard components).
2.2. Testing and demonstration of process control concept (reliability of normal control).
2.3. Demonstration of molten salt specific operations (availability of emergency operations).
2.4. Systematic risk assessment and documentation for molten salt line focusing systems.
2.5. Development/testing of new concentrator systems
TRL: 6 to 8.
Topic 3: Parabolic trough with silicone oil
Scope: Proposals should aim at demonstrating all sub-components such as collectors, mirrors,
receivers, valves, heat exchanger and steam generator in a pre-commercial scale with up to 2
complete solar collectors loops. The accompanying research actions should answer all open
questions concerning performance and durability of all involved elements of the system to reach
bankability at the end of the project.
Areas / subtopics:
3.1. Construction of up to 2 loops of full scale parabolic trough collectors including oil/salt heat
exchanger and steam generator.
3.2. Long term operation to identify durability issues.
3.3. Assessment of performance of collector and its subcomponents.
3.4. Analysis of solar flux and heat transfer at receivers.
3.5. Analysis of heat transfer fluid composition and verification of its durability and chemical
stability during commercial plant operation.
3.6. Optimization of (oil/salt) heat exchanger for increased temperatures up to 430°C.
TRL: 6 to 8
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Topic 4: Solar tower power plant to commercially scale-up and optimize the core components
of the open volumetric air receiver technology
Scope: Proposals should aim at the implementation of an open volumetric receiver technology in a
plant size of at least 50 MW. A plant like this would incorporate a receiver with a thermal output of
360-400 MW thermal and a thermal storage capacity of at least 1 GWh. The plant would have a
surrounding 360° heliostat field and four individual receivers (~80-100 MW thermal each) pointing in
four directions. A reasonable intermediate step for the receiver would be one fourth of the 300-
400MW thermal receiver with a 90° heliostat (north-)field. The actions proposed should support the
commercial implementation of such plant
Areas / subtopics:
4.1. Design of scaled-up open volumetric receiver (50-100 MW thermal) and optimization of the
receiver design for increased efficiency.
4.2. Design of scaled-up fixed bed thermal energy storage.
4.3. Design of cost and performance optimized heliostats by optimizing drive units, mirror
reflectivity and optical properties.
4.4. Detailed overall plant design for an intermediate commercial plant size of approximately 10
MW (50-100 MW thermal) including the up-scaled and optimized components.
4.5. Optimized plant and operational concepts in order to balance electricity production with other
renewables and market the produced electricity.
TRL: From 6 to 8
Topic 5: Improved Central Receiver Molten Salt technology
Scope: Proposals should aim at covering some of the main systems of a commercial central receiver
plant using molten salt (i.e., the solar field, the storage system, the solar receiver, the control and
monitoring systems, the steam generating system and turbine) as well as operation and maintenance
issues.
Areas / subtopics:
5.1. Increase nominal and annual performance of heliostats and heliostat field by 5% and reduce
heliostat cost to < 100€/m2.
5.2. For the solar receiver: Identification and selection of new suitable materials. Reduction of
total receiver surface required for a given output.
5.3. For the control: Completely automated procedure must be developed to calibrate the whole
heliostat field in a short time. Develop methods to measure receiver temperature and flux
distribution. Determination of atmospheric attenuation on line.
5.4. For the storage system: Improvements in heat tracing. Improvements of storage tanks
designs.
5.5. For the steam generation and turbine: Optimization of steam generator design. Improvement
of operational flexibility of the turbine. Improvement of the life of the turbine components.
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5.6. In terms of operation and maintenance (O&M): Development of predictive maintenance tools,
systems and procedures to reduce maintenance costs.
TRL: From 7 to 9
Topic 6: Next Generation of Central Receiver Plants with molten salt receiver
Scope: Proposals should aim at contributing to the development of the next generation of CSP
plants by achieving additional cost reduction and open new business opportunities. These R&D
actions are focused on the central receiver technology with molten salts. Since most of the R&D
activities proposed can be implemented in both small and large size plants there is no additional
constraint due to the plant size.
Areas / subtopics:
6.1. Innovative solar field configurations should be considered to optimize the plant design.
6.2. Development of different low-cost heliostat designs according to their specific requirements
as a function of their position in the solar field.
6.3. Smart independent heliostat developments (self-calibrated, self-diagnosis).
6.4. Wireless and autonomous commercial heliostat field developments.
6.5. Higher temperature solar receiver according to the needs of new power cycles to guarantee
reliability and performance
6.6. Use of innovative molten salts to allow a wider operation range.
6.7. Development of new control tools to handle and optimize the operation of the innovative solar
field configurations.
6.8. Development of methodologies for online heliostat field characterization and diagnosis.
6.9. Increase of accuracy of instrumentation for high temperatures: 1- Steam generation and
turbine 2- Monitoring of molten salt degradation status and potential corrosion of molten salt
loop 3- Low-water or waterless cleaning systems developments 4- New pumping equipment
to recover gravitational energy 5- Optimization of O&M procedures
TRL: From 6 to 8.
Topic 7: Multi-tower central receiver beam down system
Scope: Proposals should aim at improving the "beam down" solution that simplifies the construction
of the receiver as well as the tower with very positive impact on the CSP plant costs. Simplicity,
modularity and robustness can result in a strong reduction of CSP installation costs and of operative
cost.
Areas / subtopics:
7.1 Industrial optimization of mirror design and manufacturing.
7.2 Optimization of cavity integrated with storage.
7.3 Industrial optimization operating at very high temperatures.
7.4 Cost reduction and optimization (O&M) of tracker.
7.5 Study and test of high temperature components.
7.6 Operating control strategies for components, plant with thermal energy storage.
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7.7 Operate a 2 MW thermal solar receiver.
TRL: From 5 to 8
Topic 8: Advanced Thermal energy storage
Scope: Proposals should aim at developing innovative thermal storage concepts and materials
(media) with either affordable cost or outstanding volumetric energy density or higher working
temperatures, paying special attention to the reliability of the systems, subsystems associated and
storage materials available, including pumps, valves, instrumentation, tank(s) and heat exchanger
equipment.
Areas / subtopics:
8.1. Development and testing of new storage concepts and/or media with potential to
provide efficient, reliable, and economic thermal energy storage.
8.2. Identification and selection of storage subsystems materials with suitable
characteristics such as compatibility with the storage.
8.3. Design and testing of main subsystems and components.
8.4. Detailed analysis of storage integration in CSP plants.
8.5. Different plant scheme analyses,
8.6. Detailed operation and performance analysis.
8.7. Detailed cost reduction analysis and impact in LCOE.
8.8. Demonstrator at a representative scale.
TRL: From 4 to 6-7
IMPORTANT: Not all programmes / funding agencies will accept applications in all topics (see Table
2 and in the Annex “National / Regional Requirements”) and for all Technology Readiness Levels
(TRL’s), and some will prioritise some topics over others. Lower TRL research activities necessary
to support demonstration and validation activities might be potentially in scope for CSP ERA NET
funding, where they are a minor but integral part of wider projects, which progress a technology
though to TRL’s of this topic. Applicants are strongly encouraged to follow the instructions
specified in the National requirements annexes and check with their national / regional
contact points whether the project idea fits within the national / regional constraints.
Eligible topics and areas / subtopics are shown in Table 2 for each funding organisation participating in the CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call.
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Table 2: Matrix of eligible topics and subtopics per country / region resp. funding agency
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2. Parabolic trough with molten salt
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4.2 x x x x x x x x
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5. Improved central receiver molten salt technology
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6. Next generation of central receiver power plants
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8. Advanced TES (Thermal Energy Storage)
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8.7 x x x x x x x x x x
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4. Application Issues for the CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
4.1 Timeline and Process
The call is set up as a two-step submission procedure, consisting of a preproposal phase and a full
proposal phase. Further information is available with the Guidelines for Users of the Electronic
Submission System available on the CSP-ERANET website. It is a pre-screen of what will be
required in the application. Applicants shall not fill in this PDF but enter data online in the Electronic
Submission System (ESS). The most relevant dates and deadlines are given in Table 3.
Table 3: Dates and Deadlines for the CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
Date Activities
07.10.2019 Publication of the CSP-ERANET Joint Call
October 2019 Brokering webinar
10.01.2020 Deadline for submission of preproposals
03.03.2020 Communication on applications selected for full proposal round
13.05.2020 Deadline for submission of full proposals
11.08.2020 Final funding decisions communicated to proposers
October 2020 Start of projects funded
1. Applicants are strongly encouraged to follow the instructions specified in the National
requirements annexes and check with their national / regional contact points whether the project
idea fits within the national / regional constraints and to discuss the project line-up and funding
conditions.
2. A preproposal is mandatory. It has to be submitted by the coordinator and partners through an
online application form accessible via www.CSP-ERANET within the deadline set. Applicants are
invited to register in the Electronic Submission System as early as possible.
3. National / regional organisations will then carry out their eligibility check (and pre-evaluation)
based on the preproposal and the respective national / regional funding rules. Independent
international experts will evaluate the preproposals. Applicants will be provided with feedback
after the review of the-ir preproposal, including the information on whether or not they are selected
for submitting a full proposal. More specifically, the Joint Call secretariat will inform the coordinator
of the application by e-mail by 03.03.2020. If the coordinator has not received any e-mail, he /
she shall contact the Call secretariat. Recommendations for the full proposals according to the
national / regional rules and principles may then be provided.
4. The full proposal has to be submitted by the applicants through an online application form
accessible via www.CSP-ERANET within the deadline set. Additionally, national / regional
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funding applications may have to be submitted separately according to their specific rules (see
Annex – National / Regional Requirements).
5. An evaluation will be performed by independent international evaluators and the funding
organisations concerned, according to the evaluation criteria specified in the call. Based on the
result of the international evaluation, proposals will be selected (or not) for funding.
4.2 Eligibility Issues
Different eligibility aspects have to be considered:
Applications have to be submitted through the Electronic Submission System within the deadline
set.
Eligible consortia shall consist of a minimum of 3 partners from 3 different countries participating
in the CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call and providing funding to the project selected. At least
one partner in the consortium has to be from industry (except Topic 8). The project consortia may
involve as many partners as necessary to successfully deliver the project. Partners from countries
that are not members of the CSP-ERANET Joint Call (see list of funding partners under section
2) can join a project consortium as additional partners providing added-value to the project.
However, these additional partners have to finance their activities from other sources, as each
funding agency will only fund partners from their own country. A letter of commitment must be
included as an annex to the full proposal including the commitment of this partner to the project.
All applicants have to fulfil (additional) eligibility criteria of their respective national / regional
programme / funding organisation. Furthermore, all applicants must take into account that some
funding organisations require a mandatorily submission of a national application in parallel with
the international one.
SME, large companies, non-profit research organisations, higher education institutions, public
research organisations and public organisations may participate according to their national /
regional financing regulations (see Annex – National / Regional Requirements).
The project duration is limited to max. 36 months.
4.3 Funding Rules
Within this CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call, the funding rules of the national / regional agencies
apply. The level of funding available will be determined by the rules of the relevant funding agency.
Information about the specific funding rules and applicable topics will be provided via the person in
charge of the respective national / regional agencies (see Table 1). Some relevant information is
provided in Annex – National / regional Requirements. Each project partner will receive funds from
his / her national / regional agency. Each project partner will be responsible for the preparation and
submission of all necessary reports required by their funding agency in order to obtain funding in full
accordance with national / regional rules.
4.4 Confidentiality
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Project proposals and any information relating to them shall be kept confidential in accordance with
the applicable national / regional legislation. Project proposals shall not be used for any purpose
other than the evaluation of the applications, making funding decisions and monitoring of the project.
International experts, which will be invited to evaluate the proposals, are required to sign a
confidentiality agreement prior to evaluating proposals.
Successful projects have to provide a non-confidential project summary that will be published on the
CSP-ERANET website in the interests of knowledge exchange and contributions for the trans-
national reporting (details of projects are strictly kept confidential, see section 5).
4.5 Consortium Agreement
A consortium agreement between the project partners will be required. In order to accelerate the
selection and contract offer process, a statement on the signature of the consortium agreement
should be submitted with the full proposal. Models for consortium agreements can be obtained from
national / regional funding agencies or from the EC IPR Helpdesk: http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org. The
project proposal has to be the foundation for the consortium agreement. The purpose of the
consortium agreement is to clarify the responsibilities of the partners, decision processes inside the
project, management of any change of partners, how to exploit and/or commercialise the results (for
each partner) and IPR issues.
4.6 Evaluation
The evaluation is carried out on a national / regional level and by independent international
evaluation experts. The international evaluation criteria are listed in Table 4.
Table 4: Set of International Evaluation Criterion Used
Main criterion Sub-criterion
Excellence Clarity and relevance of the project’s objectives;
Credibility of the proposed technology/concept – including trans-disciplinary
considerations, where relevant;
Credibility of the proposed project approach;
Ambition and innovation potential - e.g. beyond the current state of the art.
Impact Expected contribution to the reduction in the cost of CSP power, life-cycle
environmental impact and other relevant Key Performance Indicators;
Expected impact on Work Programme (SC3-JA-1) objectives;
Expected ability of the project to enhance innovation capacity and integration of new
knowledge in the European solar power industry;
Future market deployment potential of the proposed innovation;
Project’s ability to strengthen the competitiveness and growth of European
companies by developing innovations that meet the needs of European and global
solar power markets and, where relevant, deliver these innovations to the market;
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Strength of the proposed research data management, exploitation and
dissemination plans (including IPR management proposals, where relevant);
Any other environmental or socially important impacts.
Quality and
Efficiency of
Implementation
Coherence and expected effectiveness of the project plan, including the
appropriateness of task and resource allocation;
Strength of management structures and governance procedures, including risk
management;
Consortium strengths and complementarity of project partners.
Added-value through the transnational consortium
4.7 Funding Recommendation
Based on the evaluation results and funding budget available, projects will be recommended /
selected for funding. The outcome of this process will be communicated by the call secretariat to the
coordinator of the full proposal. The coordinator will then inform all project partners.
Formal funding decisions are made by the participating funding organisations. The funding
recommendation of the call consortium is irrevocable and therefore no redress procedure is possible.
After a positive funding recommendation, the project partners must directly contact their national /
regional contact points in order to start the contract negotiation and accomplish the remaining steps
until the research project can start. The project coordinator is responsible for synchronising the
project start with his/her partners.
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5. Funding and Reporting
5.1 Contract
Funding contracts for successful applications are dealt with directly between the project partners and
their national / regional funding agencies.
5.2 Start and Instalments
Depending on the national / regional regulations, a pre-condition for transferring the first funding
instalments is the existence of a consortium agreement that also includes IPR related issues.
As the national / regional funding contracts may not all become effective at the same time, the project
parties i) usually do not receive the instalments and ii) usually are not reviewed / monitored on
national / regional level at exactly the same time. The national / regional funders will however aim to
agree a common start date and duration for recommended projects.
5.3 Monitoring
Each project partner will be responsible for the necessary reporting to their funding agency according
to national / regional rules in order to obtain and maintain funding during the lifetime of their portion
of the project. Besides the national / regional project review, the transnational cooperation aspects
will be monitored on the CSP-ERANET level. The project coordinator is responsible for reporting
according to the requirements (reporting at the start, during the course and at the end of project with
publishable summary and further information for internal reporting, participation in questionnaires,
provide the Consortium Agreement signed). The reporting and monitory shall not be conducted in
paper form. The coordinator shall enter data online in the Electronic Monitoring System (ESS). Any
substantial change in an on-going project has to be reported immediately to the involved funding
organisations and the Call secretariat. The project partners should be aware that changes might
have effects on funding.
5.4 Dissemination
Project partners are required to refer to CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call in their publications,
exhibitions, lectures and press information concerning results of the CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint
Call projects. Acknowledgement should be: Project xy is supported under the umbrella of CSP
ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call by (list of all national / regional agencies supporting the project).
To demonstrate the added value of transnational cooperation projects, results from the call shall be
disseminated. This process can be tackled via different channels, e.g.:
Conferences with relevant stakeholders to inform about the project results.
Publication of a short outline of funded projects on the CSP-ERANET and national / regional
websites. This information may also be used by CSP-ERANET for further dissemination. Further
details of projects are strictly kept confidential. They can be published only in agreement with the
project partners and where there is value in doing so.
Press conferences and workshops.
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Annex – National / Regional Requirements
Germany – PtJ 21
Germany – NRW 22
Greece 23
Israel 25
Italy 26
Portugal 29
Spain – AEI 30
Spain-CDTI 32
Spain-JUNTAEX (Extremadura) 34
Switzerland 35
Turkey 36
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Germany - PtJ
Specifications for CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
Agency Project Management Jülich, Division Energy System: Renewable Energies / Power Plant
Technology
Contact Tarik Schwarzer: [email protected], +49 2461 61 9157
Electronic submission system:
Renate Horbelt: [email protected], +49 2461 61 9874
Kambulakwao Chakanga: [email protected], +49 2461 61 9871
Topics The Agency potentially supports projects in the following topics:
Topic 2: Parabolic trough with molten salt TRL: 6 to 8
Topic 3: Parabolic trough with silicon oil TRL: 6 to 8
Topic 4: Open volumetric air receiver TRL: 6 to 8
Topic 5: Improved central receiver molten salt technology TRL: 6 to 8
Topic 6: Next generation of central receiver power plants TRL: 6 to 8
Topic 8: Advanced Thermal energy storage TRL: 4 to 6/7
Type of RTD The Agency potentially supports the following types of RTD, namely:
Industrial / applied research
Experimental Development
Eligible
applicants
The Agency potentially supports all private and public applicants, namely:
List the ones that can be supported
Private – SME
Private – large companies
Private – Non-profit research organisation
Higher education institution
Public research organisation
Public organisation
The maximum rate of support for research organisations is 100% of total costs (for all type
of R&D); for SMEs: max. 60% for Industrial research and max. 35% for Experimental
Development of total costs; for LE’s: max. 50% for Industrial research and max. 25% for
Experimental Development
Budget EUR 3’000’000 (national budget)
Further
specifications
Only consortia with significant industrial participation are eligible for funding.
National application forms (“easy-Online Antrag”) have to be used for the full proposal
phase, submission via https://foerderportal.bund.de/easyonline/
A financial viability check (if applicable) has to be carried out in parallel to the full proposal
phase.
Please contact Projektträger Jülich in advance.
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Germany – ETN / North-Rhine-Westphalia
Specifications for CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
Agency Project Management ETN, Division for Energy,
Contact Dr. Melanie Schulte, [email protected], +49 2461 690 504
Dr. Joachim Kutscher, [email protected], +49 2461 690 604
Topics The Agency potentially supports projects in the following topics:
Topic 2: Parabolic trough with molten salt TRL: 6 to 8
Topic 3: Parabolic trough with silicon oil TRL: 6 to 8
Topic 4: Open volumetric air receiver TRL: 6 to 8
Topic 5: Improved central receiver molten salt technology TRL: 7 to 9
Topic 6: Next generation of central receiver power plants TRL: 6 to 8
Topic 8: Advanced Thermal energy storage TRL: 4 to 6/7
Type of RTD The Agency potentially supports the following types of RTD, namely:
Industrial / applied research
Experimental Development
Eligible
applicants
The Agency potentially supports all private and public applicants, namely:
List the ones that can be supported
Private – SME
Private – large companies
Private – Non-profit research organisation
Higher education institution
Public research organisation
Public organisation
The maximum rate of support for education- and research organisations is 90 % of total
expenditures (for all type of R&D, only in special cases 100 %); for SEs: max. 80% (S), for
MEs max. 75 % (M), for LEs max. 65 % in case of Industrial Research and in case of
Experimental Development for SEs max. 60%, for MEs max. 50 %, for LEs max. 40%.
Depending on the type of applicant and the type of research.
Budget EUR 500’000 (regional budget)
Further
specification
NRW regional application forms have to be used by applicants who are recommended for
funding in the full proposal phase. Please contact Project Management ETN in advance.
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Greece
Specifications for CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
Agency GENERAL SECRETARIAT FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY (GSRT)
Contact 1. Dr. Anna Rosenberg Programme Officer Tel.: +30 213 13 00 095 E-mail: [email protected] 2. Paraskevi Afentaki
National Coordinator of ERANETS Tel.: +30 213 13 00 112 Email: [email protected]
Topics The Agency potentially supports projects in the following topics:
All subtopics from :
Activity no. 1: Advanced linear Fresnel technology
Activity no.8: Advanced TES (Thermal Energy Storage)
TRL4-(8) (according to COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 651/2014/Definitions for
Aid for Research, Development and Innovation, pages 24-26/par. 83-96)
Type of RTD GSRT potentially supports the following types of RTD, namely: Industrial research,
experimental development, feasibility studies (COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No
651/2014 article 25)
Eligible
applicants
GSRT potentially supports all private and public legal entities namely: private enterprises (such as SMEs, large-companies etc), research organizations, higher education institutions, and other public organizations with R&D activities). Individuals as well as individual enterprises are not eligible under this scheme.
Budget EUR 1.000.000 national funding that comes from structural funds and particularly from Operational Programme for Research, Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2014-2020, National Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialization 2014-2020 (RIS3)
Further
specifications
Eligible costs (a) personnel costs: researchers, technicians and other supporting staff to the extent employed on the project. (b) costs on fixed assets i.e. b1) costs of instruments and equipment to the extent and for the period used for the project. Where such instruments and equipment are not used for their full life for the project, only the depreciation costs corresponding to the life of the project, as calculated on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles are considered as eligible and b2) costs for buildings and land, to the extent and for the duration period used for the project. With regard to buildings, only the depreciation costs corresponding to the life of the project, as calculated on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles are considered as eligible. For land, costs of commercial transfer or actually incurred capital costs are eligible. (c) costs of contractual research, knowledge and patents bought or licensed from outside sources at arm's length conditions, as well as costs of consultancy and equivalent services used exclusively for the project. (d) additional general costs and other operating expenses, including costs of materials, supplies, travel expenses, organization of meetings, dissemination/publicity costs, audit costs, incurred directly as a result of the project implementation. (e) indirect costs = flat rate 15% of gross personnel costs excluding VAT = 15%* (a-(VAT of a)). Indirect costs are eligible for all legal entities and include costs that do not incur directly as a result of the project implementation (e. g. administrative and management costs, utility costs). Note: Please bear in mind that scientific management costs are eligible under category (a) whereas administrative and financial/legal management costs fall under eligible categories (e) or (d)-audit costs only.
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Aid of intensity Public research Institutes and Universities: the aid intensity can reach 100% for performing non-economic activities in accordance with point 19, article 2.1.1 of the «Framework for State aid for research and development and innovation» (2014/C 198/01)).
Private Sector: (a) 50% of the eligible costs for industrial research; (b) 25% of the eligible costs for experimental development; (c) 50% of the eligible costs for feasibility studies. - The aid intensities for industrial research and experimental development may be increased up to a maximum aid intensity of 80% of the eligible costs as follows:
(a) by 10 percentage points for medium-sized enterprises and by 20 percentage points for small enterprises; (b) by 15 percentage points if one of the following conditions is fulfilled:
(i) the project involves effective collaboration:
— between undertakings among which at least one is an SME, or is carried out in at least two Member States, or in a Member State and in a Contracting Party of the EEA Agreement, and no single undertaking bears more than 70 % of the eligible costs, or — between an undertaking and one or more research and knowledge- dissemination organisations, where the latter bear at least 10 % of the eligible costs and have the right to publish their own research results;
(ii) the results of the project are widely disseminated through conferences, publication, open access repositories, or free or open source software.
-The aid intensity for feasibility studies may be increased by 10 percentage points for medium-sized enterprises and by 20 percentage points for small enterprises.
Upper funding limits for the eligible costs
Upper limit of the total public funding will be 200.000 € per project (including indirect
costs). Please note that this amount can be increased to 250.000 € per project if Greek
partner assumes the project coordination. The maximum state aid intensity will be
calculated according to the provisions of the European state aid rules and regulations in
force (type of research activity, size of the participating enterprise, collaborative
research).
Duration of the projects
The duration of a funded project is 24-30 months. A possible extension of the duration
under conditions can be accepted for the projects with a project duration of 24 months
with a maximum up to the 1/3 of the initial duration taking into account the starting date
without modifying the scientific or increasing the financial part of the project and the
prerequisites of the current Operational Programme 2014-2020 (e.g. closing date for
financing the projects in national level).
Evaluation
In national level, only eligibility check is conducted and not a full peer review in pre-
proposal and full proposal stages. We rely on the evaluation of external experts.
National requirements :
Submission at the national level is required at a later stage. A national call will be published to support the approved, at the transnational level, proposals only. Detailed information on the procedure and the funding rules will be provided at the GSRT website in the guidelines of the national call, during the submission period.
For more information please contact the NCP.
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Israel
Specifications for CSP-ERANET Joint Call
Agency Ministry of Energy, the chief scientist office (CSO)
Contact Dr Gideon Friedman, [email protected]
Yael Harman, [email protected]
Topics The Agency potentially supports projects all eligible topics and subtopics.
Type of RTD The Agency potentially supports all types of RTD.
Eligible
applicants
The Agency potentially supports all Israeli private and public applicants, namely:
List the ones that can be supported
Private – SME
Private – large companies
Private – Non-profit research organisation
Higher education institution
Public research organisation
Public organisation
Municipalities
Budget EUR 600’000 (national budget)
Further
specification
The submission should follow the requirements presented in the CSO's tenders
(Academia, Start-up and pilot & demonstration) according to the proposal TRL level, type
of institution and the requested budget.
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Italy
Specifications for CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
Agency Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR)
Contact Ing. Aldo Covello tel. +39 06 9772 6465 e-mail: [email protected]
Topics MIUR supports research activities in the following topics:
1.1 Testing and evaluating critical plant components (reliability of standard
components)
1.2 Develop plant engineering, for full operation control in clear skies and
variable solar radiation days, start-up and shutdown operation, night time
freezing protection, including drain-down gravity assisted strategies
1.7 Technical-economical optimization of the existing solar field.
1.9 Integration of forecasting and power grid management and trading as a key
input for reliable operation
2. Parabolic trough with molten salt (all five subtopic)
3.6 Optimization of (oil/salt) heat exchanger for increased temperatures up to
430°C
7.1 Industrial optimization of mirror design and manufacturing.
7.2 Optimization of cavity integrated with storage
7.3 Industrial optimization operating at very high temperatures.
7.4 Cost reduction and optimization (O&M) of tracker
7.7 Operate a 2 MW thermal solar receiver
8.1 Development and testing of new storage concepts and/or media with
potential to provide efficient, reliable, and economic thermal energy storage
8.2 Identification and selection of storage subsystems materials with suitable
characteristics such as compatibility with the storage.
8.3 Design and testing of main subsystems and components.
8.4 Detailed analysis of storage integration in CSP plants.
8.5 Different plant scheme analyses,
8.7 Detailed cost reduction analysis and impact in LCOE.
Type of RTD All activities classifiable as Industrial research and Experimental development
are eligible for funding. Furthermore, Industrial research activities must be
predominant with respect to Experimental development activities (in terms of
costs).
Eligible
applicants
The following entities are eligible, providing that they have stable organization in
Italy: enterprises, universities, research institutions, research organizations in
accordance with EU Reg. n. 651/2014 of the European Commission - June 17,
2014. Eligible participants must have a stable organization in Italy.
Furthermore, any Italian participant, in order to be eligible, must comply with the
eligibility criteria listed in the art. 2.4 of the ”Linee guida al DM 593/2016”
Budget Total national budget for the call: EUR 600.000
Maximum funding per proposal (participant co-funding excluded): € 250.000 if the project is coordinated by an Italian partner;
€ 150.000 in all other cases.
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Eligible Costs
All costs incurred during the lifetime of the project under the following categories
are eligible: Personnel, Equipment, Consulting and equivalent services,
Consumables and Overheads. Overheads (spese generali) shall be calculated
as a percentage of the personnel costs and cannot be higher than 50% of them.
Travel expenses, dissemination and coordination costs are to be included in the
overheads.
Further
Applicant typology
Activity typology
Funding Rates specification
Enterprises, consortia, end users and private research bodies (which do not
meet the requirements of research organization under EU Reg. no.
651/2014 of the Commission - June 17, 2014)
Universities, public research institutions, research organizations (public and private) in accordance with Reg. EU n. 651/2014 of the Commission - June 17, 2014)
Small Enterprises
Medium Enterprises
Large Enterprises
Industrial Research
40% 30% 20% 50%
Experimental Development
30% 20% 10% 25%
The amount of funding which can be granted to each beneficiary is calculated multiplying the eligible costs for the funding rate listed in the above table.
On request of applicants a pre-payment may be done, equal to:
80% of the total contribution for public entities; 50% of the total contribution for private entities. The remaining part of contribute will be paid in instalments after each financial and progress reporting period.
Relevant national laws and rules applicable to this call - Decreto legge n. 83/2012; - Decreto Ministeriale n. 593 del 26 luglio 2016;
- Linee guida al DM del 26 luglio 2016 n. 593. - Procedure operative per il finanziamento dei progetti internazionali ex art.
18 D.M. del 26 luglio 2016 n. 593 The criteria and provisions provided herewith are intended only for informative purposes. The complete list of criteria and provisions legally valid, which must be respected by all the Italian participants, is included in the “Avviso integrativo nazionale”, published on the dedicated webpage on MIUR website and in the applicable Italian laws.
Submission of the proposal at national level In addition to the project proposal, which shall be submitted at European level, the Italian participants are requested to submit further documentation to MIUR, through the national web platform, available at the following link: http://banditransnazionali-miur.cineca.it. The content of such documentation is defined in the cited web platform.
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These national additional documents must be submitted by the same deadline established for the pre-proposal phase submission as defined in the international joint call. Any participant who does not submit its national documents by the deadline of the pre-proposal phase, will be considered not eligible for funding.
MIUR will require to all Italian participants admitted for funding, some additional documents describing more in detail the participant and its research activities within the project. It is strongly recommended to contact the National Contact Persons already in early stage of project preparation. The admission for funding is subject to the adoption of the necessary accounting and administrative measures for the allocation of the resources. Funded participants will be requested to submit financial and scientific reports to
MIUR.
Useful Links
- http://www.ricercainternazionale.miur.it/
- http://www.ricercainternazionale.miur.it/era/eranet-cofund- (h2020)/csp.aspx
- http://banditransnazionali-miur.cineca.it - http://www.ricercainternazionale.miur.it/evidenza/normativa-prog-
internazionali.aspx
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Portugal
Specifications for CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
Agency Direção Geral de Energia e Geologia
Contact Isabel Cabrita
t. +351217922753
Topics The following topics will be supported
1.1 -1.9
2.1 – 2.5
3.1 and 3.3, 4.3 and 4.5, 5.2 and 5.4
7.5
8.1 – 8.8
Type of RTD The Agency potentially supports projects in the following topics:
Industrial research
Applied research
experimental research
Eligible
applicants
The Agency potentially supports all private and public applicants, namely:
List the ones that can be supported
Private – SME
Private – large companies
Private – Non-profit research organisation
Higher education institution
Public research organisation
Public organisation
Budget EUR 100.000 (national budget)
Further
specification
Prototypes or products have to be implemented in Portugal
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Spain – AEI
Specifications for CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
Agency Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI - State Research Agency), Spain
The instrument for funding the Spanish groups will be the Spanish call on RDI Projects
International Joint Programming (Proyectos I+D+I Programación Conjunta Internacional)
or equivalent, under the Programa Estatal de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la
Sociedad,, Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020.
CSP call will be managed by the Subdivisión de Programas Científico-Técnicos
Transversales, Fortalecimiento y Excelencia
Contact PhD. Alberto Abánades (Scientific issues)
Daniel Ruiz Iruela (Administrative and technical issues)
Telephone: +34 916037968
Contact email : [email protected]
Topics The Agency potentially supports projects in all topics.
Type of RTD The Agency potentially supports all type of RTD, namely:
Fundamental / basic research required for the specific project fulfilling the
objectives of this call and necessary to support demonstration and validation
activities
Eligible
applicants
Applicants are obliged by the regulations of this transnational call and those in the PCI call. As a reference, the beneficiaries are advised to read the call PCI 2019.
The eligible entities for AEI funding are non-profit research organisations.
The Principal Investigators applying for funding to the AEI must have experience as
investigators in projects funded by the Plan Estatal I+D+i 2013-2016, the Plan Estatal
I+D+i 2017-2020, ERC Grants, European Framework Programmes or other relevant
international programmes.
The participation of the Spanish industrial sector is crucial to the success of this call, so it
is highly recommended that researchers participate in transnational consortia together
with Spanish companies in the sector that will be financed by the Centro para el
Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial (CDTI) according with its specific regulations (see CDTI
Annex).
It is very important that companies comply with the requirements of the CDTI,
since otherwise the consortium may be declared ineligible.
Incompatibilities:
Principal Investigators are not allowed to apply for funding in more than one
proposal of this CSP joint Call, in more than one proposal in the same PCI call
and in two PCI calls in consecutive years. These must be taken into account
when participating in different ERA-Nets or other international initiatives
Principal Investigators must remain unchanged between the proposal to this
transnational call and the National PCI call.
The AEI will avoid double funding (overlapping with other EU or National funding), and
will not grant projects or parts of projects already funded.
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Budget Maximum national funding for the CSP call 2019: 500.000 € (EU cofund not included)
Eligible costs
Personnel costs for temporary employment contracts (scholarships are not eligible).
Current costs, small scientific equipment, disposable materials, travelling expenses
and other costs that can be justified as necessary to carry out the proposed
activities.
Indirect costs (overheads) are not eligible for funding in the PCI call.
The duration of the projects should be preferably 3 years, with a minimum of 2
years -
The following funding limits are considered eligibility criteria. Proposals not respecting
these limits could be declared ineligible.
• Maximum amount of funding per partner: € 200.000 for a 3 year project,
€ 50.000 in addition if the project is coordinated by Spain*.
• Maximum amount of funding per proposal: € 300.000 (two or more Spanish
partners*), € 50.000 in addition if the project is coordinated by Spain*.
*Industrial partners funded by CDTI do not account in this calculations.
Centres formed by different Spanish legal entities will be considered as a unique entity,
and thus the maximum funding should not exceed the limits per proposal established
above (for example mixed centres).
The final funding will take into account the transnational evaluation of the collaborative
proposal, the scientific quality of the Spanish group, the added value of the international
collaboration, the participation of the industrial sector, and the financial resources
available.
Further
specifications
Purpose of funding:
The projects granted by the AEI must be aligned with the main objectives of the Plan
Estatal.
Acknowledgement
Any publication or dissemination activity resulting from the granted projects must
acknowledge the AEI funding: “Project (reference nº XX) funded by the AEI through PCI
call”.
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Spain – CDTI
Specifications for CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
Agency CDTI - Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial, E.P.E.
Contact Héctor Gonzalez Menendez: [email protected]
Topics The Agency potentially supports projects in all the call topics as long as the activities to
be developed are technology-based (especial attention to this approach should be taken
in subtopics 2.4 and 8.7)
Type of RTD The Agency potentially supports the following types of RTD, namely:
Industrial Research and /or Experimental Development (TRL up to 8).
N.B. Only technology-based activities within industrial research and/or experimental
development projects are eligible for funding (in accordance with the definitions of the
General Block Exemption Regulation, EC Regulation nº651/2014). The Spanish part of the
proposed work plan must be developed in Spain. Please note that non-technological
activities related to business models or processes are excluded for CDTI funding.
Eligible
applicants
The Agency potentially supports for-profit private companies (being SME or large
companies) established and carrying out R&D activities in Spain.
N.B. Other entities such as Universities, Public Research Institutions, Technological
Centres, and non-profit private institutions could participate under subcontracting by
Spanish companies (subcontracting cannot exceed the 50% of the national project
budget).
Budget EUR 1’500’000 (CDTI budget)
Further
specification
The eligible costs include:
Personnel costs, to the extent employed on the research project.
Instrument and equipment costs, to the extent and during the period in which they are
used for the project.
Contractual research costs, technical knowledge and patents bought or licensed from
outside sources at market prices, as well as costs of consulting services intended
exclusively for the research project.
Other costs (operating expenses) including materials, supplies and similar products,
exclusively used for the research project. Audit costs for the national reporting of the
project (when applicable).
Additional general expenses (indirect costs, as a percentage of personnel costs).
Applicants must check the detailed description published on CDTI website. Please note that
management and dissemination costs are not eligible for funding.
Project duration: 12 to 36 months.
Project transnationality: projects should be transnational by nature, therefore, each
country/ region will be responsible for no more than 70% of the total budget project costs.
Compulsory Minimum Eligible Budget: € 150,000 (this amount applies to the project
budget per partner, not the requested funding).
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Mandatory National Application
Additionally to the international application process, those applicants requesting funding
from CDTI must submit a formal application by way of CDTI electronic submission
system (https://sede.cdti.gob.es). The application must include a detailed description, in
Spanish Language, of the activities to be undertaken by the company and the respective
budget. Applicants must indicate their VAT (CIF) number in all their respective applications
(both international and national). Further guidance will be published on CDTI website.
Financial conditions
CDTI funding will be based on grants, which will be calculated as a percentage of the
eligible costs, up to a maximum aid intensity of 60 % for small enterprises, 50 % for
medium enterprises and 40% for large enterprises, according to the General Block
Exemption Regulation (EC Regulation nº651/2014).
Specific financial conditions for ensuring the beneficiary’s solvency could be required
according to CDTI funding rules. CDTI will avoid double funding, and will not finance
projects, or parts of projects, which have been already, funded through other national,
transnational or EU calls. CDTI will be responsible for making the final decision regarding
the awarding of funds, taking fully into account the transnational evaluation of the
collaborative project, the previous funds received by the participants for other related
projects, the fulfilment of eligibility and funding rules, and the financial resources available.
Further information
Applicants are strongly advised to check the detailed information available on CDTI
website and to contact the NCP for getting advice about national funding rules, before
submitting a proposal.
Please check the complete national funding rules and relevant information about the call
on the following links:
“Financiación CDTI para Proyectos de Investigación y Desarrollo”
http://www.cdti.es/index.asp?MP=100&MS=802&MN=2
“Financiación CDTI para Proyectos Transnacionales en el marco de acciones ERA-NET”
http://www.cdti.es/index.asp?MP=101&MS=831&MN=2
For further information, please contact the NCP or visit CDTI website: https://www.cdti.es/
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Spain-JUNTAEX
Specifications for CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
Agency Junta de Extremadura (Regional Government of Extremadura), Spain.
Contact Samuel Ruiz Fernández: dgieym.ei @juntaex.es
For administrative and technical issues: Fernando Rivas Navazo: [email protected]
Topics The Agency potentially supports projects in all the call topics.
Type of RTD The Agency potentially supports all activities classifiable as:
Industrial / applied research
Fundamental / basic research
Experimental Development
Eligible
applicants
The following entities, providing that they have stable organizations, are eligible to apply for
funding: private enterprises, non-profit organizations, universities and higher education
institutions, public organizations and research centers.
Budget The available funding for the CSP call 2019 is EUR 50.000 (regional budget).
Further
specifications
Eligible Costs:
- In the case of Extremadura’s public entities which pass the AEI financial
requirements in their national program, the funding will complement regional
entities to cover the marginal costs that are not supported at national level.
- In the case of private entities which pass the CDTI financial conditions in their
national program , there will be additional funding to cover the cost of dissemination
of the project results, consortium management and/or any other management cost
not supported by CDTI, for any company which are locate in Extremadura region
as an incentive effect, ( maximum 50.000€/project) added the national funded.
For further information, applicants must check the detailed description published on
AGENEX’s website (www.agenex.net). Regional application forms must be used for the full
proposal phase.
The final funding will take into account the transnational evaluation of the collaborative
proposal, the scientific quality of the regional group, the added value of the international
cooperation, the participation of the industrial sector, and the financial resources available.
It is very important that companies comply with the requirements of the national
programmes, managed by CDTI and AEI.
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Switzerland
Specifications for CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
Agency Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE)
Contact Stefan Oberholzer, [email protected]
Topics The Agency potentially supports projects in the following topics:
Topic 4: Open volumetric air receiver
Topic 6: Next Generation of Central Receiver Plants with molten salt receiver:
only subtopics 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4
Topic 8: Advanced Thermal energy storage:
Only subtopics 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4
Type of RTD The Agency potentially supports the following types of RTD, namely:
Industrial / applied research
Experimental Development
Eligible
applicants
The Agency potentially supports all private and public applicants, namely:
List the ones that can be supported
Private – SME
Private – large companies
Private – Non-profit research organisation
Higher education institution
Public research organisation
Public organisation
Funding is primarily provided for pilot and demonstration project with TRL>5 (exceptionally
TRL4) which underlie the national rules for such projects:
- Funding is limited to 40% of the eligible project costs, which are the additional project
costs that cannot be amortized over the expected lifetime of the developed
installation or solution. Additional project costs are the additional costs compared to
the costs of implementing an equivalent, conventional technology or solution.
- Eligible funding recipients are private and public sector entities (companies, research
institutes, municipalities, or communities consisting of several of the former).
- Project topic contributes to increasing energy efficiency or use of renewable energy;
- High application and success potential;
- Project topic in line with the Swiss energy policy;
- Gathered results are publically accessible and disseminated.
- More criteria might be added depending on the topic / adjudication mode.
In exceptional cases, smaller research type projects can be supported through the SFOE
research programme application rules. The maximum funding rate for applied research is
max. 100% of total costs for non-profit research organisations, max. 50% of total costs for
SMEs and LEs; for experimental development is max. 50% of total costs for non-profit
research organisations and max. 50% of total costs for SMEs and for LEs.
Budget EUR 200.000 (national budget)
Further
specification
Consortia should have significant industrial participation.
National application forms have to be used for the full proposal phase
A national proposal has to be worked out in parallel to the full proposal phase.
Please contact SFOE before submitting pre proposal.
CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER
CSP - CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER 37
Turkey
Specifications for CSP ERANET 1st Cofund Joint Call
Agency TÜBİTAK
Contact Ilknur YILMAZ/Cagri YILDIRIM
Tel. +90 312 298 1753/1884
e-mail: [email protected] website is: www.ufuk2020.org.tr
Topics The Agency potentially supports projects in all topics.
Type of RTD The Agency potentially supports the following types of RTD, namely:
Basic research, applied research, experimental development and innovation.
Eligible
applicants
Higher education institutions, their institutes, public R&D centres, SMEs and private
companies established in Turkey.
Budget EUR 700.000 (national budget)
There is no budget limit of the Programme but limit is determined per call. Moreover, there is no budget limit per project.
Further
specifications
Applicants from Turkey would be supported via:
1071 Programme - Support Programme for Increasing Capacity to Benefit from International Research Funds and Participation in International R&D Cooperation The purpose of the 1071 programme is to support research and innovation activities of the
Turkish stakeholders via enabling the cooperation of academy and industry for the
international R&D projects.
National application forms have to be used for the full proposal phase – download from
http://www.tubitak.gov.tr.